Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01480)

Had a nice chuckle, if lightning is going to strike me, I want to know which direction it is coming from!
Regards
Cass

"M. Sufilight" <global-theosophy@stofanet.dk> wrote:

Yeah...Cass

I agree.

Depression has increased.
The mental level has increased in our present informations society.
One reason behind it is:
Because of the increasing amount of information and knowledge
about all the "ugly" events going on in the world, which the
newsmedias pour out and we as human absorb like fresh air
- either by using a news channel or by lending an ear
to our informed friends - the level of depresion is on the rise.

Even my email about the
- - - Danger from the Dark side - - -
might make some readers depressed or at least afraid.
But, after some time, they seek out what to do,
and find out that the universe is governed by some
beautiful laws, which none of us can bend out of shape.




To Mark I have this one:

- - - On the Safe side - - -

"What are you doing hiding under the bed?" asked Mulla Nasrudin's wife. 
"It's all lightening and thunder," said the Mulla. "And I don't want to get 
struck by lightening. "Oh, that's silly," said his wife. "If lightening is 
going to strike you, it will strike you no matter where you are." "THAT'S 
ALL RIGHT," said Nasrudin. "BUT, IF IT IS GOING TO STRIKE ME, I JUST WANT TO 
BE HARD TO FIND."



M. Sufilight


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cass Silva" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Sorcery and problems on the Path


>
> Hi Morten
> Thanks for this Morten. I was also told by my teacher of many years ago 
> (a housewife) who told me that the black magicians are not interested in 
> us as "puppets" until we pass through, at least, the 1st initiation.
> HPB also states to be very aware of Depression, and to avoid it taking a 
> hold over us, so perhaps the implicit message is to fight it off at the 
> beginning with will power (and a couple of wines wont hurt!). The dark 
> cloud, you mention.
> Don't you find it interesting that Depression is now at plague proportions 
> in the world?
> Regards
> Cass
>
> "M. Sufilight" wrote:
>
> Hallo all,
>
> My views are:
>
> The following might be helpful...
>
>
> - - - Danger from the Dark side - - -
>
> I only want at this point to lay emphasis upon the fact that no danger 
> need be
> feared by the average student from this source. It is only as discipleship 
> is approached
> and a man stands out ahead of his fellows as an instrument of the White 
> Brotherhood
> that he attracts the attention of those who seek to withstand.
>
> When through application to meditation, and power and activity in service, 
> a man has
> developed his vehicles to a point of real achievement, then his vibrations 
> set in motion
> matter of a specific kind, and he learns to work with that matter, to 
> manipulate the fluids,
> and to control the builders.
> In so doing he encroaches on the domain of those who work with the forces 
> of involution
> and thus he may bring attack upon himself. This attack may be directed 
> against any of
> his three vehicles and may be of different kinds. Let me briefly point out 
> some of the
> methods employed against a disciple.
>
> 1.
> Definite attack on the physical body. All kinds of means are employed to 
> hinder the
> usefulness of the disciple through disease or the crippling of his 
> physical body. Not
> all accidents are the result of karma, for the disciple has usually 
> surmounted a good
> deal of that type of karma and is thus comparatively free from that source 
> of hindrance
> in active work.
>
> 2.
> a)
> Glamor is another method used, or the casting over the disciple of a cloud 
> of emotional
> or mental matter which suffices to hide the real, and to temporarily 
> obscure that which
> is true. The study of the cases wherein glamor has been employed is 
> exceedingly
> revealing and demonstrates how hard it is for even an advanced disciple 
> always to
> discriminate between the real and the false, the true and the untrue. 
> Glamor may be
> either on the emotional or mental levels but is usually on the former.
>
> b)
> One form employed is to cast over the disciple the shadows of the thought 
> of weakness
> or discouragement or criticism to which he may at intervals give way. Thus 
> cast, they
> loom in undue proportion and the unwary disciple, not realizing that he is 
> but seeing the
> gigantic outlines of his own momentary and passing thoughts, gives way to
> discouragement, aye even to despair, and becomes of little use to the 
> Great Ones.
>
> c)
> Another form is to throw into his mental aura suggestions and ideas 
> purporting to
> come from his own Master but which are but subtle suggestions that hinder 
> and
> help not. It takes a wise disciple always to discriminate between the 
> voice of his
> real Teacher and the false whispers of the masquerading one, and even high 
> initiates
> have been temporarily misled.
> Many and subtle are the means used to deceive and thereby curtail the 
> effective output
> of the worker in the field of the world. Wisely therefore have all 
> aspirants been enjoined
> to study and work at the development of viveka or that discrimination 
> which safeguards
> from deception. If this quality is laboriously built in and cultivated in 
> all events, big and
> little, in the daily life, the risks of being led astray will be 
> nullified.
>
> 3.
> A third method frequently employed is to envelop the disciple in a thick 
> cloud of
> darkness, to surround him with an impenetrable night and fog through which 
> he stumbles
> and often falls. It may take the form of a black cloud of emotional 
> matter, of some dark
> emotion that seems to imperil all stable vibration and plunges the 
> bewildered student into
> a blackness of despair; be feels that all is departing from him; he is a 
> prey to varied and
> dismal emotions; he deems himself forsaken of all; he considers that all 
> past effort has
> been futile and that naught remains but to die. At such times he needs 
> much the gift
> of viveka, and to earnestly weigh up and calmly reason out the matter. He 
> should at these
> times remind himself that the darkness hides naught from the God within, 
> and that the
> stable center of consciousness remains there, untouched by aught that may 
> betide.
> He should persevere until the end, - the end of what? The end of the 
> enveloping cloud,
> the point where it merges itself into sunlight; he should pass through its 
> length and out
> into the daylight, realizing that nothing can at any time reach to and 
> hurt the inner
> consciousness. God is within, no matter what transpires without. We are so 
> apt to look
> out at environing circumstances, whether physical, astral or mental, and 
> to forget that
> the inmost center of the heart hides our points of contact with the 
> Universal Logos.
>
> 4.
> Finally (for I cannot touch on all the methods used), the means employed 
> may be to cast
> a mental darkness over the disciple. The darkness may be intellectual, and 
> is consequently
> still more difficult to penetrate, for in this case the power of the Ego 
> must be called in,
> whereas in the former frequently the calm reasoning of the lower mind may 
> suffice to
> dispel the trouble. Here, in this specific case, the disciple will be wise 
> if he not only
> attempts to call his Ego or Higher Self for the dispelling of the cloud, 
> but calls likewise
> upon his Teacher, or even upon his Master, for the assistance that they 
> can give.
> These are but a few of the dangers encircling the aspirant, and I hint at 
> them solely for
>
> the purpose of warning and guidance, and not to cause alarm.
>
>
>
> from
>
> M. Sufilight
>
>
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